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In reply to the discussion: Superbugs will 'kill every three seconds' [View all]Nitram
(22,803 posts)32. Every 3 seconds? That sounds like bogus science to me.
I don't mean to belittle the point that antibiotics are being recklessly mishandled and will be useless if we don't take action soon. But that sounds like a headline in the National Enquirer.
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That is true, and a problem, but in this country the big problem is antibiotics given to livestock,
still_one
May 2016
#5
It is a problem, and a lot of work with new classes of antibiotics, bacterial phages, and vaccines
still_one
May 2016
#6
On the radio they were talking about about trying to disconnect profits from sales.
Bad Dog
May 2016
#14
Yes, and at least rich people get richer from tobacco, which is the most important thing
valerief
May 2016
#31
So how do hedge fund managers get rich from it? If that isn't possible, then we all die, cuz
valerief
May 2016
#29